Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-04
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

Yolo county had in its Treasury Nav LIST
S38, 43S Al.
! County Clerk Hamilton's fees for April
/ amounted to 1865 IS.
The annual Sunday School Convention
| OF Iolo county commenced its sessions at
Davisville yesterday
DIR. J. w. Healy, formerly a resident of
Woodland, died in San Diego April 9th,
/ after lingering and painful illness.
]. H. Strobridge and party came down
from the front of the California and Oregon
Railroad by special train yesterday morn
ing, en- route to San Francisco.
In Justice Posts Court this morning the
cases of Cox and Van Kleek, charged with
mlsdemeanor in escaping from the county
jail, will come up for trial by jury.
The festive chicken thief visited the
premises of Mr.. Folger, on Q street. be-
tween Seventeenth and Eighteenth, Mon
day night, and stole two dozen fowls.
Secretary of State Hendricks has paid
into the State Treasury, as fees of his office
for April, the sum of s., 547 60-the largest
amount yet paid in for one month from
that Office.
Governor Bartlett has declined to inter-
fere in the case of John Rogers, who is
sentenced to be hanged at Eureka, Hum
! boldt county, next Friday, for the murder
of man named Kimball.
Alexander e. Joseph, special counsel ap-
pointed by the Board of Supervisors to col
lect the tax on foreign insurance COM
panies, stock of corporations, etc., have
filed brief in the Supreme Court in case
of that class.
These arrest were made yesterday: Mrs.
Adams, by officer O'Meara, for disturbing
the peace; Richard Dunn and Chas. ALI
son, by officers Mccormack and Lowell.
for visiting an opium den ; All Gun, by the
same officers, for keeping an opium den.
An Indian who arrived from Truckee on
the forward deck of a baggage car yesterday
morning, brought with him a large number
OF line trout, averaging two or three
pounds in weight, and did good business
on the street in selling them for two bits
EACH
l.. n. Billings. whose ranch is short
distance above Sacramento brought to the
city yesterday some specimens of the grain
now growing upon it-oats and barley.
The oats are over five feet high and the
barley close on to six feet Both are
headed out finely, and promise an immense
yield.
The average Signal Service temperature
in Sacramento yesterday was $3.50, which
is 20 warmer than the same mean average
temperature for that day in nine wears.
The highest and lowest temperature was
'7S0 and $50, with fresh southerly winds
and clear weather.
A. B. Bryant lost or had stolen from his
wagon in this city On Monday thirty
pound box of tea, which he procured at
Booth & Co.'S. and which he found to have
disappeared from his wagon when he
reached Curtis Bros. & Co.'s market. 1t is
believed to have been stolen.
w. II. Weaver, who was shot and severe
ly wounded by Hong Di at the time of the
murder of Mrs. Billou at st. John, came to
the city yesterday, en- route to the East,
having recovered sufficiently to be able to
travel, though he still carries his arm in a
sling. One of Mr.. Bilious sons also came
down yesterday, on his way to school at
San Jose.
A sneak thief entered the residence of
L. B. Mohr on Saturday last and stole
coat and hat. The light-fingered gentle
man took a pocketbook out of the coat
pocket which contained Mr. Mohr's tickets
to Europe and left them on the center
table. He evidently is not a tourist, at
least don't desire at this time to make
trip across the Atlantic.
Mrs. L. Epson, widow of the late Lauren
Epson, for many years editor of the Sacra-
.mento Union, died at the residence of her
daughter, Mrs. George B. Williams, at La
fayette, Indiana, on the LIST instant, aged
81 years. The remains will be brought to
Sacramento for interment in the family
plat. Mrs. Epson was the mother of L. A.
Epson. of this city, and Mrs. Lucy Arnold,
of San Francisco.
Hugo Kramer, driver employed bv F.
c. Knauer, of the Pacific Brewery, disap.
peared on Monday with days collections.
presumed to be about $780, and has not been
heard of since. Early last evening his hat.
apron and account book were found on
the north levee, and were left at RiIey's
grocery store, Tenth and Z streets. His
friends think he has gone upon a spree,
and will soon be heard from.
Among the cases on the calendar of
the Supreme Court, called yesterday, was
that of The People VS.. Brown and
Welie, matter growing out of the Hill
Sharon trial. Judge Mcfarland inquired
whether those defendants had not been
pardoned by Governor Stoneman, pend
ing the hearing of the cause on APP
peal. 1t seems that such was the fact
but the Acknowledgement and the Court
had not been notified of it.
The bell which has hung in the steeple
of st. Rose Church since 1859 was taken
down yesterday. and, until the completion
of the new Cathedral, will do duty upon
framework, about 80 feet in hight, erected
for it alongside the temporary church
building on Twelfth street, in which serv-
ices are now being held. The bell weighs
over 1900 pounds, and was cast at Troy, n.
York. The old church edifice at Seventh
and X streets will soon be thing of the
past.
The ladies of the w. c. T. U. of Wood
land, last Monday petitioned the Town
Trustees to pass an ordinance for the clos
ing of places where liquor is sold as a
beverage at 10 p. NJ, not to reopen until
A. NJ. The Board appointed committee
to wait upon the City Attorney and confer
with him relative to their authority to or
der the closing. At the same session the
Board passed an ordinance declaring
houses of prostitution within the corporate
| limits of the town to be nuisances, the oc-
cupant guilty of misdemeanor-as also any
person owning and leasing a building oc-
| cupied by such persons, the penalty being
fine of not less than $40, nor more than
800, with the alternative of imprison-
ment.
New Clerk of City Water Works.
The following communication upon the